Motivation

The modern web is a successful platform for large scale interactive web applications, including visualizations. Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) provides a
web-based collection of tools for interactive modeling and visual data analysis that has a large user base. However, most of SOCR applets eventually became practically unavailable to end users as new versions of browsers disabled Java by default as a response to numerous vulnerability reports.
Thus, we designed an open-source platform to build Statistics Online Computational Resource
Analytical Toolbox (SOCRAT). Platform design defines: (1) a specification for an architecture for building VA applications with multi-level modularity, and (2) methods for optimizing module
interaction, re-usage, and extension. SOCRAT relies on this platform for integration of a number of data management, analysis, and visualization modules into an easily customizable web application including interfaces for merging third-party components. This ability allows SOCRAT to balance expressive, interactive and processing capabilities, efficiency, compatibility, and accessibility. Multi-level modularity and declarative specifications enable easy customizations of the application, for instance, for a specific project. Online demo demonstrates how SOCRAT can be used for data input, display, and storage, with interactive visualization and analysis.
For more details see the publication list below.

Copyright and License

All SOCR programs, materials, tools and resources are developed by and freely disseminated to the entire community.
Users may revise, extend, redistribute, modify under the terms of the Lesser GNU General Public License
as published by the Open Source Initiative. All efforts should be made to develop and distribute
factually correct, useful, portable and extensible resource all available in all digital formats for free over the Internet.

SOCR resources are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but without
any warranty; without any explicit, implicit or implied warranty for merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for
more details see http://opensource.org/licenses/LGPL-3.0.